In his creative guide to the practice of Broken Windows Management for Business, author Dr. Tom DePaoli offers practical strategies learned from his diverse career in many organizations. A description of some of the principles of broken windows management is explained and made relevant to both business and other organizations. The broken windows management analogy to some criminal justice theories is explained. In many cities of the country there’s a fear of the streets; especially if there’s disorder and the environment is in disarray. In many organizations there’s a fear of management. No small part of this can be due to employees who do not understand the actions of upper management. One of Deming’s most important points was to drive out fear. Prevention of disorder and actually fixing things that employees say are wrong; goes a very long way to establishing trust and credibility with management. Management must be vigilant and constantly try to control disorder and fix the things and issues that employees value. These actions reduce employee fear of management and actually help gain trust. Trust is enhanced by quickly fixing things that employees’ want fixed. A lot of broken windows management is learning by doing. There is ample room for creativity and having fun with broken windows management. Broken windows management is a journey not a quick fix. After years of employee neglect it will take time for broken windows management to work. It remains one of the most viable and practical ways to achieve quality of work life improvement. The author relates some for the principles of 5S and the kaizen methodology to the broken windows management approach. Told in part via a story or blog post like format, Broken Windows Management for Business uses real life examples to discuss what goes right, and often wrong, in the broken windows management trenches. Dr. Tom contrasts the broken windows management approach to current management fads, which are often ineffective, trendy, and shallow flavors-of-the-month. Broken windows management is strong on actions and results orientated approach. It requires a powerful ongoing commitment from management. The emphasis is on fixing employee issues, correcting complaints and solving problems expeditiously. Attention to detail and a passion for meeting employee’s needs are at its centerpiece. Broken Windows Management also places an emphasis on order and trying to create an impressive workplace that employees and customers would be proud of and motivated to keep clean. Dr. DePaoli sets a benchmark that the work area should be so impressive and safe that employees could take-their-child-to-work any day, at any time.

Today, it’s harder than ever to compete in a more competitive job market. It’s harder to get ahead, and it’s harder to keep up with rapidly changing technology. So what’s the secret to success in our careers? How do we or our children become productive and thriving citizens in a modern democratic society?

“WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed” outlines the critical skills essential for success in a career as well as in everyday living - skills not typically taught directly in high school or college. Designed for those who want to advance in specific careers, for students, and for those who seek personal advancement, this easy-to-follow guide clearly defines and shows us how to develop critical thinking, communication, production, information, analysis, interpersonal, time management, and continued education skills.

The DOOM LOOP! Straight Talk about Job Frustration, Boredom, Career Crises and Tactical Career Decisions from the Doom Loop CreatorBy Charles Cranston JettPublished: Outskirts PressPublished: December 2014ISBN: 978-1478745235 (hc)ISBN: 978-1478743040 (pb)ASIN: B00RM2ARV6Genre: Careers, Business & EconomicsFormats Available For Review: print (limited quantities, only available to qualified reviewers/bloggers in the U.S.), pdf, kindle

Two-thirds of the American workforce experience boredom and frustration on the job.

But there is a simple tool to help!

The Doom Loop is an elegant, intuitive, and simple career management tool designed to help you make smart, tactical career decisions and to help see you through the seven common crises that nearly everyone faces in their career. It can also help employers take appropriate actions to improve the productivity of their employees by understanding the nature and causes of boredom.

Created by the author in the 1970s, the Doom Loop is a 2x2 matrix to help you anticipate and solve problems related to boredom and frustration on the job. This deceptively simple tool can help you avoid making ill-advised job change decisions, and it can quickly give you confidence that a new opportunity will be the right one for you.

You don’t need to attend seminars or workshops to use this career management tool. The Doom Loop is straightforward and easy to use, yet powerful in its guidance—and it might just become the best friend you ever had on the job!

Whether you or someone you know is in college or just starting out, gainfully employed (and concerned about career ambiguity), underemployed, or have been downsized, rightsized, laid off, fired, cast off, or otherwise in career transition, Becoming Generation Flux is for you. Perhaps you are lost, hopeless, or angry. You might feel alone, cheated, ripped off, or not sure what to do next. Or maybe you are curious to understand the massive shift in the job hunting market currently rippling through the career transition landscape. Miles will guide you on a job search journey to understand the past, confront the career development present, and conquer future career success. You will learn why traditional career planning is dead, how to become agile, adapt to ambiguity, and develop resilience no matter what the job change market throws your way.

Save The Drama For Your Mama!: A Leader's Guide To Organizational Accountability Genre: Business Leadership Formats Available For Review: ebook, pdf, print (only available to qualified reviewers/bloggers)

Save The Drama is a must-read for every professional, across every industry, worldwide. Sheri Mackey, The Global Coach™, reveals little known essentials for developing sustainable organizational accountability across the corporate spectrum. Based on over 25-years of global leadership roles, coaching hundreds of clients through difficult changes, and considered a thought leader in global and cultural integration within the context of the corporate DNA, Sheri brings together real world, workable solutions to the challenge of workplace drama and organizational change.

Destinations offers a clear, step by step process to get on the road to setting your goals, tracking meaningful milestones...and realizing your most coveted dreams. This book is perfect for anyone who is interested in learning a straightforward way to set and pursue goals in such a way that they lead to a desired destination - whether that destination is personal or professional. Using this easy to understand roadmap, learn how to determine what it will take to get where you want to go: SMART goals, milestones, patience, persistence and a dedication to exceeding your potential... in ways you never thought possible. Are you ready to start the journey toward your most desired destinations?

Virtual Success: How To Build High Performing Virtual Teams Genre: Business, Leadership Formats Available For Review: pdf, print (only available to qualified reviewers/bloggers)

In our increasingly global world, virtual teams are essential to maintaining competitive advantage. Unfortunately, most global organizations don’t provide virtual leaders the necessary resources to be successful. Employing virtual teams is an easy choice, but one rife with unexpected, and sometimes unidentifiable, challenges. The result is billions of dollars of revenue lost each year—as well as many jobs...

This how-to guide is designed to help you, the leader, stop the bleeding, diagnose the problems, and start meeting your global business goals and objectives.

Leadership Leverage is all about taking a second look at conventional wisdom and thinking about how you can use it to become a better leader. It is about using the knowledge hidden in well-known sayings to dig deep to become the very best leader you can be. It is as much about adding value to others, as it is about adding value to yourself… it is about discovering your most powerful you – a leader who creates transformation by leading with intention.

Within the pages of this book are some time-honored pieces of advice that can change the way you lead. By exploring each of the 52 lessons you will have the capacity to acquire something you deeply desire… to become the very best leader you can be. These timeless pieces of advice will change how you communicate, do business and interact with the world around you.

Social Upheaval: How to Win @ Social SellingBy John GoldenPublisher: Huthwaite Center for ResearchISBN: 978-0991038404ASIN: B00IB0CEP0Published: January 2014Pages: 136Genre: Business, Social Media, SalesFormats Available For Review: pdf, ebook or kindle

John Golden, best selling author of "Winning the Battle for Sales" presents "Social Upheaval: How to Win At Social Selling" to explain how every B2B salesperson can add social selling methods to their toolkits, and why it is so important that they do so without delay. Using social media to sell is all about communicating value quickly and concisely. Any book on the subject should do the same, and "Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling" does exactly that. A short, easy-to-read treatise that delivers practical advice and tactics to successfully leverage this new frontier of selling, Social Upheaval is provocative, entertaining and above all immediately useful.

Success is an elusive thing! So, how can one book transform the lives of billions of people for generations to come?

Offering powerful insights into the reality that separate the 'Best' from the 'Rest', The Inexplicable Laws of Success is perhaps the first and only self-help book that provides a complete map or picture of "how to be successful" in life. Inspired by the classic, Think and Grow Rich (by Napoleon Hill), it makes extensive use of pertinent motivational quotes and inspirational stories to drive home the keys to success in life. Importantly, the content is carefully structured to show the connectivity between key success principles and exactly how they engender spectacular accomplishment.

In his new fun and creative book, “Kaizen Kreativity (Oops) or Don't Be Afraid of Looking Stupid. I'm an Expert at It!” author Dr. Tom DePaoli offers an entertaining and creative approach to improving work design and work processes. Dr. DePaoli uses a variety of techniques including story-telling, imaginative training exercises and ready to go outlines of PowerPoints on Kaizens. He uses self-deprecating humor to recall the many times when he stumbled, when trying to implement Kaizen events.

The reader can gain much from these lessons. The book also serves as a good desktop guide to Kaizens with a wealth of information on how to organize for Kaizen events. This is not a dogmatic book that insists on a rigid methodology for Kaizens. Dr. DePaoli often shows that just using a few Kaizen tools can often result in significant gains. The book will help both the novice and the experienced Kaizen leader. He uses real life examples of Kaizen tools to show how work groups can make great gains. By following these stories the reader can gain a career's worth of experience in Kaizen events.

Dr. DePaoli's lessons are practical, to the point and enjoyable. Like many good business leaders, the author places getting the trust of the Kaizen work team first and foremost in his book. He emphasizes the intense preparations for the Kaizen event and overcoming the fear of asking stupid questions and conquering any trepidation of looking foolish. His book advances to tackle common mistakes in the Kaizen event, dealing with Kaizen team bad actors and building a strong relationship with the Kaizen champion. He provides an excellent workbook outline for a Kaizen event along with a strong glossary of Kaizen terms.

“Kaizen Kreativity (Oops) or Don't Be Afraid of Looking Stupid. I'm an Expert at It!” provides solid elements of a desktop guide for conducting a Kaizen along with suggestions on how to make the Kaizen tools exciting. This is novel indispensable guide to a Kaizen event. Dr. DePaoli asserts, "Above all don't be afraid of looking stupid! I'm an expert at it! And it has served me very well."

You2Preneur presents VANAD’s holistic yet practical approach to the way a person works, lives and makes a living … and survives, in harmony with the singular creative spirit that is born inside all. Written by noted Columbus Ohio trial attorney turned performing rock musician and personal growth speaker dee VANAD, the book is an adaptable plan that recognizes that every solo soul searcher needs to keep the utilities on and pay the bills. That burning part of a person that craves us doing our own thing must coalesce with those things society demands. But, far from being a traditional ‘how-to’, and never a business manual or superfluous preach – the author reveals those twelve life lug nuts that torqued just right for him, keep the electric running uninterrupted while allowing his own soul lava to boil forth without much of a care for concrete formulas.

Storyteller VANAD begins the novel and armament by recounting a long ago maniacal toboggan ride on an ice rocket borrowed from six midgets who witnessed his impromptu snow squall death taunt. He did survive – and as much as he learned early that risk taking is an art that pervades some lives – he came to know that his journey definitely is one of those. Lessons learned whittle a winning philosophy that herein becomes valuable knowledge shared. Some of the vignettes are plain and simple. Quite a few belie a writing style that is forged of pure comedy. But all of You2Preneur is practical advice mixed with a heavy measure of stories one simply falls down deep into.

We meet a nationally recognized insurance company president who won’t cast his own written communique’ for lack of confident form that VANAD is called upon to provide him. Benefit now from VANAD’s recipe. There’s a law professor along the way who weighs in from the classroom lectern whilst drawing heavily from the theater, never knowing that VANAD has usurped his word-for-word script and is making his own underground deals with a tome he did not author. Angels decide to descend from the heavens to save a 60′s collector-guitar from sidekick-VANAD decapitation. A circus mid-way barker collars the boy VANAD in the midst of his black ops behind-the-scenes carney peep … and to the youngster’s amazement, the stinky curmudgeon delivers a life-carving master’s revelation the lad will never forget. Even Earth’s worst addiction becomes a vanquished conquest as the now middle-aged author hunts down and harpoons his own lifelong claw clutching back monkey through the invention and use of a device he unfurls from seeds planted by an LSD researcher and a movie appearance by William Hurt.

Share now VANAD’s entertaining presentation of TNT for MLM. These then are the twelve reasons this son of an immigrant family steel worker and carpenter beat all odds and they are why he learned that every entrepreneur needs: You2.

Which dozen lug nuts in your life will you be inspired to truth-tell …

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